The OCIS division of the Academy of Management is pleased to announce the 2014 Doctoral Consortium, to be held in Philadelphia PA on August 1, 2014. The consortium will provide an opportunity for doctoral students to network, receive feedback on their research and discuss career issues. All interested PhD students working on research in the areas of Organizational Communications, Information Science or Information Systems are invited to apply. Confirmed faculty advisers include: Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University Jennifer Gibbs, Rutgers University Massimo Magni, Bocconi University Ann Majchrzak, University of Southern California Mary Beth Watson-Manheim, University of Illinois at Chicago Travel support will be provided for students who are admitted to the consortium. Acceptance to the consortium will be based on a review of the application materials. Preference for attendance and funding will be given to students who will have defended their dissertation proposals but not their dissertations by the date of the consortium, to those who have not previously participated in the OCIS consortium, and to those whose institutions or fields would not otherwise be represented. The application includes: 1) A 5-page, double-spaced, 12-point abstract of the proposed dissertation research 2) A letter of recommendation from dissertation chair/advisor supporting the student’s participation in the Doctoral Consortium. The due date for applications and letters of recommendation is 21 April 2014. Please email all application materials as attachments in one email to: mbwm.ocis.aom@gmail.com For questions, please contact Mary Beth Watson-Manheim (mbwm@uic.edu), the 2014 OCIS Doctoral Consortium chair. And please pass this note on to any doctoral students you know who might be interested. -- Mary Beth Watson-Manheim Associate Professor MIS PhD Program Director Department of Information & Decision Sciences Department of Communications University of Illinois, Chicago